Your Own Time No Longer Yours
from the tps-report dept
Slashdot reports that the National Labor Relations Board recently ruled a security company's ban on employee fraternization -- on or off duty -- was lawful. So don't worry about having to choose between a competent jerk or a nice moron for a coworker, since you might not be allowed to talk to them anyway.
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Silly, draconian policy by the company that prompted the ruling? Yes. Sensationalist self-serving 'news' item linked without any balance or alternate point-of-view? Also yes.
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Read the Damn Ruling
If you bother to read the ruling, it has to do with security guards at a hotel. The "fraternization" has to do with "personal engtanglements" at the hotel. It other words, the guards were not allowed to screw each other at their client's place of business.
As the ruling noted, such a rule is (and I quote):
"a proper means for preventing the "apperance of favortism, claims of sexual harassment, and employee dissention created by romantic relationships in the workplace".
So this ruling is brought on by sexual harassment claims, is a special case of security guards working at a hotel, does not refer to having beers with co-workers after work, or have anything to do with collective bargaining.
Pretty pathetic that this site is stooping to lying sensationalism. But what do you expect when you post an article third hand without checking the source?
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and it it is not limited to fraternization while in uniform. While the ruling mentions a previous case that was about guards at a hotel, this one is not. And yes, it does apply to having a few beers after work. Pretty pathetic the way some posters think no one will check up on them. But what do you expect from turf trolls.
The NLRB is a federal agency charged with investigating and remedying unfair labor practices. As such, their rulings are backed by and have the effect of law. Their rulings create precedence and so this ruling is NOT limited to Guardsmark. It's easy to see why unions, among others, would object to a ruling like this.
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No one was saying that this was required, but the problem is that any employer can now add the same language to the rules, and it's perfectly legal. That's where the problem comes from.
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result, Guardsmark had to rewrite part of their employee handbook. I work for them; the new language is quite different than what they tried to pull before.
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